(Now please, if you can’t make it through this rather long winded harangue of homage, simply scroll to the end and check out the coming events at The Velaslavasay Panorama.)
I love L.A.
Most folks who come here don’t really get it. They find themselves confused and

Terrifying in some circles, hotly desired in others: the party divided by a populist revolution and defeated by an electorate that cannot unify behind the eventual candidate. Do you think I mean the Republicans? Yes. But also the Democrats.
Most of the 2016 excitement in both

I love speaking to a kindred soul whose passions are rooted in another field different from mine. It always fascinates me to hear them tell of their pursuit of artistic achievement using a vocabulary so utterly dissimilar from my own while yet describing essentially the

The Americans, season 4 premiere 10pm, Weds. (March, 16) on FX. Be prepared for a whip-lash year.
Now, it’s possible you may be someone whose not yet found the FX political thriller. If so, heed the following counsel: DVR Wednesday night’s premiere. Sign on to Amazon

In the Good Old Days that Donald Trump talks about at rallies, jackboots are apparently the style. And I say “are” because those times never actually were. Like so many other historical fantasies, such as Saint Ronnie or the success of trickle down economics, they exist only in the

The wait’s been long, but the time is nigh: April 24th is coming.
Books in the series whose stories will play out: There will be The Winds of Winter with some carry over from A Feast for Crows and A Dance of Dragons. Mostly, however, the 2015

And when chemotherapy fails, what’s left—Kryptonite?
There’s no easy cure for the cancer that is metastasizing in the Republican Party right now. As you may have read in more than a few opinion pieces, GOP presidential candidate and front runner Donald Trump is the natural end

There are a number of events and venues here in L.A. which I maintain are under appreciated. I’m talking about places and performances unique to this city which I’m convinced the fine folks living here would relish the experience of – if they’d just get